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The Marylebone Music Festival invites you to re-discover "London's first musical venues": the fantastical Pleasure Gardens. This lost Victorian craze invited revellers to enter a secret garden and be transported from grey streets to green gardens, away from the city's chaotic noise to an illumiunated park full of elegant music.

Pleasure Gardens - at the heart of the Marylebone Music Festival

In 1737 Daniel Gough, landlord of the Rose Tavern, opened the inaugural Marylebone Pleasure Gardens. It was said that "Mr Gough’s Tavern and his Gardens, (where no persons of ill repute would be admitted), there would be a Choice Band of performers playing the most celebrated Pieces of Music."

Nearly three centuries later, we are delighted to have revived the music and spirit of the Marylebone Pleasure Gardens, which closed in 1776.

This year, we are excited to present you with a festival 240 years in the making, and now in its third edition in the 21st century.

Our programme is inspired by his passion for music, the violin, and Marylebone.

Marylebone Music Festival 2018: Sherlock Holmes

The man who never lived and so lives forever: Sherlock Holmes continues to fascinate generations. His literary appeal is global, speaking as does music, to a universal langauge great composition, finding enduring appeal in constant reinterpretation.

Our programme of events celebrates Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved stories of this iconic character with events full of mystery, music and adventure.

An international music festival with a local focus.

The Marylebone Music Festival is much more than a community celebration, it is a community-building event.

We are supported by local leading organisations such as The De Walden Estate. Such charitable donations are vital to the festival's continued capacity to attract the best musicians and offer audiences the best venues. Charitable donations are recognised across all festival materials, including a dedicated section of the programme (and the website).

We are sponsored by local businesses and offer a range of sponsorship options. Available options range from hosting promotion events to setting up concessions at events. For example, Marylebone Gin will be setting a pop-up at the Wallace Collection restaurant so that festival attendees can taste - and develop a taste for - their established and newly created gins.